Hurricane Ophelia Has Intensified As It Heads Toward Europe
their turn in the barrel?
I thought Ophelia drowned herself.
Checked the forecast track, looks like Isle of Skye will get hit. Added Talisker to shopping list.
Actually looks like Ireland and then the Scottish north of the UK.
As a part time West Palm Beach resident who was without power for 6 days and had a mountain of debris mostly from my neighbors’ trees, I can’t say I have much sympathy. Maybe they should put some more restrictions on firearms. Yep that should help.
… 80 mph gales …The Beaufort scale says that gales range from 33 mph (moderate gale) to 54 mph (strong gale). 55 mph to 63 mph is called a storm (sometimes “whole gale”) and 64 to 73 mph is called a violent storm (equivalent to a tropical storm); hurricanes start at 74 mph.
England gets a hurricane.
I’ll be watching this one and interested in how their government will respond since they’re so critical of our response.
Cat 3 now, 115 MPH winds. WEIRD to see it head north towards Europe - they’re supposed to hit Florida or some other country in the Caribbean, like Puerto Rico.
80 MPH at landfall? I don’t suppose it has occurred to anyone in the UK to stock up on lager and crisps, hunker down and put some Chris Ardoin or Michael Doucet on the record machine.
Considering how the British papers covered our hurricane I can’t feel any sympathy for them.
You get hurricanes?
I thought it was only us.
And that it was Bush’s fault.
Or Donald’s.
Or something.
Gales are very common in the British Isles.
Good...maybe it’ll wash all those godless commies out of Ireland
‘Hope they’ve cancelled any yacht races: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Fastnet_race